White House Denies Assigning NASA Administrator to Perform Muslim Outreach

By Doug Powers  •  July 12, 2010 04:19 PM

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

Somebody call the fire marshall, because the underside of Barack Obama’s bus was already dangerously overcrowded, and yet another body has been thrown under:

The White House is contradicting the NASA administrator’s claim that President Barack Obama assigned him to reach out to Muslims on science matters.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera network that one of the charges Obama gave him was “to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering.”
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that such activities are not among Bolden’s assigned tasks. He said administration officials have spoken with NASA about the matter.

If that’s the case, why didn’t the Obama administration stuff a turban in Bolden’s mouth when he started talking about Obama tasking him with a Muslim outreach way back in February?

Does this sound like a guy who made it all up on his own — twice?

Maybe Obama’s people recognized that announcing a “Muslim outreach” just after telling some NASA employees and others that they’d be losing their jobs due to “new directions” in Obama’s vision for the space program was bad PR, so they decided to roll over on Bolden. I doubt that’s the reason though — Team Obama seems to have a pretty high tolerance for ignoring the will, opinion and outrage of the people.

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  1. #1
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:23 pm, Insomniac said:

    Lying crapweasels.

  2. #2
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:24 pm, frostrt said:

    Somebody call the fire marshall, because the underside of Barack Obama’s bus was already dangerously overcrowded, and yet another body has been thrown under:
    —————————————
    Gettin’ awfully crowded under there indeed.

    Let’s see: Grandma, Rev Wright, Bill Ayers (?) the majority of the American people . . .

  3. #3
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:25 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Failure to launch!

  4. #4
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:26 pm, Anita said:

    General McCrystal talks to Rolling Stone, got fired.

    NASA Administrator Charles Bolden talks to Al-Jazeera saying some things as Obama told him to do which WH says not true.

    What happens to Charles Bolden Now?

  5. #5
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Jim Lovell: We just lost the moon.

  6. #6
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:36 pm, swede said:

    So, one of these two is lying:

    Bolden, a decorated Marine airman and distinguished astronaut holding:

    Defense Distinguished Service Medal Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit
    Distinguished Flying Cross
    Defense Meritorious Service Medal

    Or Gibbs: Noted media hack and spinmeister.

    Geez, this is a tough choice, but I guess I’ll go with Bolden.

  7. #7
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:40 pm, Truesoldier said:

    The question now is will Bolden be silent about the situation or will he come out and rebut the rebutal?

  8. #8
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:41 pm, Hangfire said:

    Sorry, but Bolden shoot be given a pistol with one round just for letting Al-Jazeera interview him.

  9. #9
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:41 pm, groundhunter said:

    We didn’t loose the moon.
    We got mooned.

  10. #10
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:46 pm, Hangfire said:

    oops, should, vice shoot.

    Man, talk about a Freudian petticoat.

  11. #11
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:51 pm, Truesoldier said:

    I see that the Obama administration has just announced their new drilling moratorium (no details yet).

  12. #12
    On July 12th, 2010 at 4:57 pm, Truesoldier said:

    From Drudge:

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the outer continental shelf, according to an e- mailed statement.

    Salazar said a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies implement adequate safety measures to reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling operations and are prepared for blowouts and oil spills.

    Correct me if I am wrong, but is that not what the formerly known MMS is supposed to be doing daily anyway?

  13. #13
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:20 pm, nail49 said:

    If Bolden has any cajones, he will resign in protest of the Administration’s actions.

    These cr@pwe@sels need to be left to drown in their own obfuscation, lying, distortions and general cr@pwe@selness.

  14. #14
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:20 pm, mytake said:

    If I worked for Obama I’d surely get our conversations on tape. Doesn’t anybody ever get proof? Maybe he really said, “Muslim’s should go to the moon. They are in the way of my reshaping of America”. Nope! Somehow Sharia law can be fit into his plans. Can’t wait to see Michele O in a burka.

  15. #15
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:22 pm, mytake said:

    That would be Muslims, not Muslim’s

  16. #16
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:32 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    If I worked for Obama I’d surely get our conversations on tape.

    I’m pretty sure that can’t happen. Just like a meeting with a mafioso don, you’re searched head to foot to make sure you aren’t wired. Working for TEH WON, you just know you are expendable for the cause if you slip up.

  17. #17
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:40 pm, prendad said:

    How dare thou cast a shadow on the perfect one. Ye shall now suffer the consequences.

  18. #18
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:50 pm, mytake said:

    I do believe they monitor this site. I just wonder how far into a reeducation program I would have to be pushed before my liberal friends would say, “Well this time Obama has finally gone too far. I guess I should join the Tea Party now. What? It was disbanded?”

  19. #19
    On July 12th, 2010 at 5:57 pm, mojoe said:

    It must be once a week that Gibbs is trotted out to “clarify” one remark or another made by this administration.

  20. #20
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:18 pm, letget said:

    Their lips are moving, lies come out! A ten year old could see through this bho and team. The ten year old kids get on the internet! As do we here at MM to get the truth.
    L

  21. #21
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:21 pm, T-Bone said:

    Whats the truth here? Certainly can’t believe what Gibbs says.

    Did he or didn’t he? If he did, this lie by Gibbs is an acknowledgement of the stupidity of Obama and another YOU LIE moment. Joe Wilson would be proud.

    If Obama did not task him with this, why did Bolden lie repeatedly?

    Now, heres the rub. They did not say what task Bolden may have “misconstrued”. Did he make this up out of whole cloth or did he misstate a directive?

    Assuming they did tell him this, they have not figured out what to say that they did say. In other words, the spin, because they didn’t mention the spin. They are holding to the “never said it” thing. Next question is, What did you say to him that was similar?

    The answer is… they did tell him that.

  22. #22
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:23 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Sure NASA administrators who are retired Marine Corps Major Generals say that kind of thing on their own intiative all the time.

    It’s true, really; I heard it straight from the Easter Bunny.

    What a weak response from these losers. What is worse is how weak they look to a Muslim world that is trying to decide which “winner” they are going to back. God help the Iranian and other Muslim dissidents at the moment.

    The stench of weakness pervades everything.

  23. #23
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:24 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Sleep with dogs, you get fleas. Just ask Bolden. Not to mention your reputation is trashed.

  24. #24
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:26 pm, T-Bone said:

    Don’t worry about the Muslims. We have those tea party activists as a bigger danger to deal with.

  25. #25
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:28 pm, Flyoverman said:

    P.S. So if Muslim outreach is not NASA’s mission then what in the h@11 is NASA’s mission?

    It is is as well defined as the Gulf Oil spill mission.

  26. #26
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:28 pm, Ty85719 said:

    yeah, the guy just randomly declared this to be the new mission of NASA without any coercion because it makes so much sense…right.

    It takes some pretty big stones to deny something on record and watched by millions.

    We can literally watch Obama become more audacious by the day

  27. #27
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:34 pm, T-Bone said:

    And if reaching out to Muslims is not one of his assigned tasks, why was he speaking to Al Jazeera in the first place?

    I am sitting here wondering about all the questions this should bring. Who is asking those questions? The MSM? White House Press Corp? Or are they too beleaguered by Gibbs assaults on them to dare mention how this doesn’t add up.

    The first question is to Mr. Bolton and they should ask him before Obamas henchman get to him and tell him a lie to repeat in response, or give him the pc spin answer.

    I would like the question to be: Mr Bolton, you have said Obama gave you this task. Obama says he did not. Which one of you is lying?

  28. #28
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:35 pm, shooter said:

    4:57 pm, Truesoldier said:
    …but is that not what the formerly known MMS is supposed to be doing daily anyway?

    sooo little time, sooo many p0rn sites.

  29. #29
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:43 pm, Tuesday said:

    Hah! The denial from the WH came a little too late. They must have had a long meeting to discuss repercussions, etc. before coming to this conclusion!

    Now they have to do a lot of catching up to repair the damage done, and it is very IFFY that they can.

  30. #30
    On July 12th, 2010 at 6:54 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Can you believe anything anyone in this administration says? Seriously. These people are pathological. Maybe Holder issued these instructions before consulting with Obama…

  31. #31
    On July 12th, 2010 at 7:19 pm, T-Bone said:

    We could not have landed a man on the moon with out the contributions of the Muslim world.

    Neil Zawahiri, Buzz “Hussein” Aldrin, and Mohammed “Michael” Collins were all working closely with Muslims during their moon walk preparations.

    The line “One small step for infidels, one giant leap for Muslims” will be forever etched in our memory from that grand day July 20th 1969.

    The prophet Mohammed was the first to visit the moon back in 621 ad. He rode a giant rocket ship that resembled a winged white horse that launched off the Dome of the rock in Jerusalem which is why the Mosque there is so important. He didn’t get moon rocks but instead found a copy of the Holy Koran laying up there in the Sea of Mujahadeen. He did all of this in one night.

    Science is forever in their debt for that and Obama is right to recognize the historic acheivement.

    I also have a bridge I am selling in Brooklyn. Hurry though as it is targeted for destruction soon.

    Contact me at BR5-4muslims. Cash tenders only.

  32. #32
    On July 12th, 2010 at 7:22 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Somebody call the fire marshall…

    Doug, do you mean this guy?

  33. #33
    On July 12th, 2010 at 7:34 pm, T-Bone said:

    And by the way, the name of the white horse that Mohammed rode was a Buraq. Its uncanny how close that is to the name Barack.

    A Buraq is a mythological winged horse described commonly as a creature which carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Isra and Mi’raj or “Night Journey”. The journey in itself was a physical ascension (from the start of the journey in Mecca to Al-Aqsa and eventually departing from Al-Aqsa to the Heavens. An excerpt from a translation of Sahih al-Bukhari describes a buraq:

    I was brought by the Buraq, which is an animal white and long, larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, who would place its hoof at a distance equal to the range of vision.

    Here is my infidel translation.

    “I was brought to the moon by Barack, who is half white and tall. Bigger ears than most Democrats but stubborn as a mule, who stands on the peoples head with his myopic vision.

  34. #34
    On July 12th, 2010 at 7:40 pm, Erbo said:

    The fact that the White House has denied this story is, so far, the best evidence we have that it’s 100% true.

    Sure, one day we will be able to go to Mars. But don’t be surprised if the Chinese charge you a very high fee for stamping their visa into your passport, plus requiring proof of a return ticket…or, if you desire an immigrants’ visa, a much higher fee, plus proof of a needed colonial skill. Because there is intelligent life in Beijing, if not in Washington D.C.

  35. #35
    On July 12th, 2010 at 8:01 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    If I worked for Obama I’d surely get our conversations on tape.

    Are you kidding? They’d probably let you have the recorder because they have a device that will make you record nothing but dead air.

    These cr@pwe@sels need to be left to drown in their own obfuscation, lying, distortions and general cr@pwe@selness.

    The Mendacity of the Dope.

  36. #36
    On July 12th, 2010 at 8:52 pm, T-Bone said:

    Here is a link to a decent article on Islamic contributions to math and science. It doesn’t really talk about how they invented things like algebra, just that they did and who did it. It was interesting.

    Muslim Contributions link

    Its even more interesting if you think about how they were so smart and innovative way back when, in comparison to what they do today. You would think they would have been the first ones on the moon and would have progressed from there to unbelievable achievements, etc.

    What happened?

  37. #37
    On July 12th, 2010 at 9:47 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    T-Bone said:
    Here is a link to a decent article on Islamic contributions to math and science. It doesn’t really talk about how they invented things like algebra, just that they did and who did it. It was interesting.

    It would have been more interesting if they had included the Babylonians and the Indians who pre-dated the muslims in their use of Algebra, but hey…

  38. #38
    On July 12th, 2010 at 9:59 pm, William said:

    From the thread title:

    “White House Denies Assigning NASA Administrator to Perform Muslim Outreach”

    Bull SH@#!!!!!

    That is a BIG, FAT, LIE!!!!!!11

    Obama knows exactly what happened and he is in on it.

    The LIAR IN CHIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  39. #39
    On July 12th, 2010 at 10:06 pm, William said:

    I don’t believe the Muslims and their own, self-proclaimed achievements.

    India, China, and other cultures contributed a great deal to the progress of mankind in regard to mathematics, navigation, transportation, medicine, science, research, agriculture, etc.

    Muslims used the sword to change the “landscape” of Asia, North Africa, Middle East, and Europe. Then they claim achievements that others have contributed.

    Now we are to believe they are the Religion of Peace, Love, Justice, Tolerance, Mercy, and Understanding, while the world is rife, daily, with a plethora of violent acts perpetrated by Muslims on everyone else on the planet, world-wide!

    Furthermore, this behavior has been exhibited for 1400 years, with the butchering and coereced conversions of Indians, Chinese, Africans, and on and on, eradicating almost al Zoroastrians and Jains, attacking Ba’hais, slaughtering millions of Hindus and coercing the conversions of many others, slaughtering Christians, Buddhists, Jews, etc., and coercing conversions to islam of many others.

    I am sick of Islam and it’s nasty, venemous, violent, hate filled, blood and eath and lies cult, and I am sick of people here i the west wasting time, and bending over backward to spin things to that Islam is a peaceful religion, and Muslims have been the leaders of humanity when everyone else was in the dark, especially when it turns out, with deeper thought and research, to be a distortion of the truth.

  40. #40
    On July 12th, 2010 at 10:19 pm, bjc said:

    Islamic contributions

    *P-BO should show more interest in their contributions in the present day world, the daily shredding of innocent bodies through bombs, all brought on by a 7th century invented religion of death cult savages; We will not be safe until we get a CiC who speaks the truth about Islam; Even Bush was unwilling to do so!
    *And, oh yeah, Gibbs and P-BO have lying deeply imbedded in their DNA; Enough said!

  41. #41
    On July 12th, 2010 at 10:34 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    rolled over my a–, until he’s fired he’s not rolled over. all they said to him so far was ‘Shhh, not so loud Comrade Bolden.’

    this is just another lie from Baghdad Bob Gibbs to cover their flank like always. just more of the same, aren’t we used to this constant lying yet?

    every creep and czar and dept head Obama put in place all worship him and all of them take their orders right from him, they don’t put their socks on in the morning without checking with him first. why does anyone on our side (that of Truth) pretend otherwise?

  42. #42
    On July 12th, 2010 at 10:43 pm, beenthere said:

    Anyone who works for Obama know that at any time he can be called to take one for the One. I am absolutely confident Bolden knows this and is not disturbed at all by the latest development. Of course, the first version was correct. It is consistent 100% with Obama, who and what he is. The official, corrected, version is bunk.

    We will not be safe until we get a CiC who speaks the truth about Islam

    For a president to do the above, a necessary condition is that one or more nuclear bombs strike this country (I honestly believe no one is the administration cares in the slightest what happens to Israel.) Whether it is a sufficient condition, I have no idea.

  43. #43
    On July 12th, 2010 at 11:57 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    the best description of Baghdad Bob Gibbs I ever heard was “a talking papercut”

  44. #44
    On July 13th, 2010 at 12:07 am, Ron said:

    Gee, I guess it was Bolden in a private meeting with His Anointedness, and who can tell? Who ya gonna believe? A known liar, or Bolden?

  45. #45
    On July 13th, 2010 at 12:19 am, rightisright said:

    I believe Bolden, but I have a hard time understanding how or why a highly decorated Marine would turn his back on America. Before you start throwing darts and boogers at me, tell me the Odopo’s administration isn’t anti-American…which Bolden obviously supports. It’s beyond me how a soldier becomes a Marxist lefty in the 1st place.

  46. #46
    On July 13th, 2010 at 1:45 am, Trollman said:

    beenthere said:

    We will not be safe until we get a CiC who speaks the truth about Islam

    For a president to do the above, a necessary condition is that one or more nuclear bombs strike this country (I honestly believe no one is the administration cares in the slightest what happens to Israel.) Whether it is a sufficient condition, I have no idea.

    Sadly, we will never have a CiC who will tell the truth. After 9/11, all we heard was spin about how Islam is a religion of peace. I took it upon myself to learn the truth & read the Koran, since I had a hard time reconciling all the stuff I was hearing & seeing back then.

    If we had nuclear bombs go off in America or anywhere else in the West, it would not force our leaders to face the truth. People would just be proclaiming that Islam is a religion of peace louder than ever. And so it will continue…

  47. #47
    On July 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am, BruceB said:

    On July 12th, 2010 at 8:52 pm, T-Bone said:

    Here is a link to a decent article on Islamic contributions to math and science. It doesn’t really talk about how they invented things like algebra, just that they did and who did it. It was interesting.

    Muslim Contributions link

    Its even more interesting if you think about how they were so smart and innovative way back when, in comparison to what they do today. You would think they would have been the first ones on the moon and would have progressed from there to unbelievable achievements, etc.

    What happened?

    They became Muslims

  48. #48
    On July 13th, 2010 at 9:54 am, spaceycakes said:

    beenthere said:

    You are correct; no one cares a whit what happens to Israel.

  49. #49
    On July 13th, 2010 at 10:57 am, TigerLady said:

    If we had nuclear bombs go off in America or anywhere else in the West, it would not force our leaders to face the truth. People would just be proclaiming that Islam is a religion of peace louder than ever.

    And you’d hear the MSM tell us it’s our fault that we were nuked.

  50. #50
    On July 13th, 2010 at 12:16 pm, granite said:

    On July 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am, BruceB said:

    The muslims weren’t so smart.
    The dhimmis under their boot were…until the muslim predators/parasites crushed and obliterated their preys’/hosts’ cultures.

  51. #51
    On July 13th, 2010 at 12:24 pm, granite said:

    …their prey’s/hosts’ cultures.

    Apologies – the plural of “prey” is “prey”.

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